Concerts of Everyday Living Response

Within this article, I learned that to be interdisciplinary/inter-media is more virtual where art finds new ways to develop new object and language experiences.

The article therefore discusses Flux, which is understood as a noun, a verb, an adjective, and even as a dictionary definition as part of a process for change. This type of inter-media art seems to challenge the meaning of the traditional art object and reasoning to extend to instead an "occasion for experience." I learned Flux deals more greatly with a type of performance art. This type of performance art is composed of visual, textual, and sound qualities. And in Flux, sound becomes more like a conversation, rather than a "feeling like an actor" to complete a piece of artwork that is within a specific definition and finds beauty in what is a new perspective. It was interesting in the article comparing the story mentioned about "The Sound of Silence: 4'33" where an empty canvas is no more silent than having an interdisciplinary piece be silent. A blank canvas seems to actually offer the permission to compose silence within a Flux piece and it becomes actually part of the piece.

And in the "Cage: from tone to noise", it expanded more on the awareness of what it means to be interdisciplinary regarding sound and building ones experience to hear what may be suitable for art and considering the context of perspective. The article questioned the resources of music or what could be music. John Cage, a regarded avant-garde composer, was mentioned that there is more joy, in his opinion, to combine various everyday noises than it is to rehearse a specific music composition. It is interesting to consider that to collect sound as noise, which may be considered meaningless, becomes a focus of this art and it emphasizes that natural beauty as a part of culture.

The article also describes a series of actions, but not sound and music in a usual way. When George Brecht, a prime mover in Flux, mentioned the concept of incidental music it was mentioned that the boundaries to cross includes the nature of sound in music, with sight and sound being between culture and nature. This article here draws attention to the ways in which culture interacts with nature. The aspiration of Flux art is to identify it then with everyday life. The artist becomes more the listener to share what they have learned. What is discovered is that in the unexpected nuances of life there is actually variety. The audience begins to see something other than what they thought was there and the performance becomes a newly created experience to explore. This article then discusses an open perspective that one should not have any expectations of what may be performed, but to look forward to the unexpected experience. Overall, I think this is an interesting article and the Flux movement seemed to help build audience awareness that they should be willing to move past assumed boundaries and enjoy the "music" of new types of experiences.